Bracket.



W. PEPLOWSKI.

BRACKET.

APPLIUATIoN FILED ooT.21, 1911.

1,030,205, Patented June 18, 1912.

`\21 Il l COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH :n.wAsHlNa'r NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WLADYSLAW PEPLOWSKI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BRACKET.

vide brackets-adapted for installation without marring the trim or finish of a door or window opening.

One embodiment of the present invent-ion is disclosed in the structure illustrated in' the accompanying drawings, in which like characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bracket constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical section of one of the hanger brackets, the section being taken on the line 1 -4 in Fig. 5; Fig. 3 is a rear view of one of the hanger brackets.

The objection to the use of brackets formed of wood heretofore has principally existed in that the trim or frame of the door or window opening is marred by the fastening devices employed for securing the said brackets in position. It is common, during certain seasons of the year, to remove the curtains and other hangings. Heretofore, when the structure supported by the brackets has been removed, the brackets, if left in position, present an awkward and unsightly appearance. The alternative, however, of removing the brackets and exposing the scarred woodwork left has proved equally objectionable. It is to obviate these objections that the present brackets are provided with means for securing themA to the trim' different from that heretofore employed.`

The inner edge of each of the brackets 17 is provided with a groove 18. In the groove 18 is secured a metal plate 19 which is provided with a collar 20 to extend within a perforation formed in the lower por-' tion of the bracket 17. The collar 20 is furnished as a receptacle for the reduced portion of a spindle 21 of the wing nut 22. The wing nut 22 extends from the forward or exposed edge of the bracket 17. The inner end of the spindle 21 is threaded to Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led October 21, 1911.

Patented June 18, 1912. Serial No. 655,893.

or to the spindle 21 above the said pinion, Y j

is a collar 25. The collar 25 serves to override the sliding plate 26 and to maintain the same within the slot 18 and in proper operative relation with the pinion 24;.

The plate 2G is overturned and sharpened at the upper end to form the spurs27, 27, which spurs are designed to sink into the trim or head of the door or window opening at the upper and concealed side thereof. The horizontal port-ion 2S of the sliding plate 26 connecting the spurs 27 and the body of the said plate, varies in length to suit various conditions of structure and design of the trim, and the height of the door or window ope-ning. No reasonable limit is imposed as to the extent of the dimension of the said portion 2S.

In the operation of the plate 26 the same is drawn downward by the rotation of the spindle 21 and the pinion 24 connected therewith. To guide the upper end of the plate there is provided a screw 29, which, in operative position, extendsq through the elongated slot 30 formed in the said plate adjacent the upper end of the bracket 17. The head of the screw 29 overrides the side 0f the slot 80.

With brackets constructed in accordance with the above description the operation required to install the same is as follows: A hole to receive the screw 23 is preliminarily formed in the trim of the door or window opening. Preliminary to placing the screw 23 in the said hole the screw is rotated to disengage the pinion 24 from the rack 31 with which the plate 26 is provided. This posit-ion is best shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. The plate 26 is held in locked position so that the teeth of the rack 31 are not engaged by the pinion 24 until the screw 23 has been inserted to near the limit designed therefor. At this point the plate 26 is depressed, the horizontal portion 2S with the spurs 27 having been overlaid upon the top edge of the trim or head of the door or window opening. The teeth of the rack 31 are now engaged by the teeth of the pinion 24:, when the further rotation of the spindle 21 and the screw 23 connected therewith results in the depression of the plate 26 and the embedding of the spurs 2727 into the material of the trim or frame of the opening. Thus, in the simple operation of turning up the screw to clamp the lower end of the bracket 17 against the trim of the opening, the upper end of the said bracket is also rigidly secured in operative position.

It will be seen that when brackets constructed and arranged in conformity with the present invention yare removed from the door or window openings, the only visible change in the door opening made to accommodate the fastener is the one hole for the screw 23 on both sides of the door.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent is l. A curtain pole bracket comprising a member having a perforation to receive a curtain pole, and having fastening mechanism for said bracket embodying a manually operative screw extended through the lower end of said bracket, said screw provided with a gear wheel disposed adjacent the concealed edge of said bracket; and a plate slidingly mounted on the concealed edge of said bracket, said plate having an overturned spur, and having a gear toothed rack portion to engage said gear wheel.

2. In a curtain hanger, and in the suspension bracket therefor, a bracket Jfastening mechanism comprising a screw; a gear wheel fiXedly mounted on said screw; a sliding plate having a rack toothed section adjacent sald gear Wheel and adapted to be moved into engagement therewith; an eXtension of said plate having formed on the end thereof spurs for embedding in the woodwork of a standing structure; means for guiding said plate in relation to the bracket; and means for turning said screw.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WLADYSLAW PEPLOVVSKI.

Witnesses: I

E. F. MURDOCK, FELIE PEPLowsKI.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner -of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

